All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 37
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Spain gets new travelling filmhouse: Club del Cine
A group of Spanish industry vets have joined to launch an innovative new project to send little-seen films out to all corners of Spain.Launching with an initial first-year budget of around Euros 240,000 largely from the pockets of its six founders, the Club del Cine will work as a kind ...
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Alquimia Cinema's slate has Latin American flavour
Madrid-based production house Alquimia Cinema's new slate of films reflects the increasing attractiveness of Spain as a marketplace for actors from across Latin America (particularly financially troubled Argentina), including Ricardo Darin (The Son Of The Bride, Nine Queens), Leonardo Sbaraglia (Intact), Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) and Dario Grandinetti ...
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El Deseo confirms My Life Without Me cast
The Almodovar brothers' Madrid-based production house El Deseo has confirmed casting on forthcoming English-language production My Life Without Me from director Isabel Coixet.Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Plummer and Deborah Harry are set to star in the $2.5m film, which begins shooting March 25 in Vancouver with Canada-based My Life ...
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Fausto and Sorum are Fantasporto favourites
Spain's Fausto 5.0 and South Korea's Sorum walked away the big winners of the 22nd annual edition of Portugal's fantasy and sci-fi oriented Oporto International Film Festival (Feb 22-Mar 3), better known as Fantasporto.Fausto 5.0, directed by Isidro Ortiz, Allex Olle and Carlos Padrissa, took home the official Fantasy section's ...
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Telefonica reports decline in net profits
Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica reported a drop in net profit for 2001, down 15.9% to Euros 2.1bn from Euros 2.5bn in 2000. The company estimates the devaluation of the Argentine peso impacted its results by as much as Euros 369m.Telefonica media filial Admira posted Euros 347.3m in net losses, a ...
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Spain's Morena Films announces three new titles
Spanish film and TV producer Morena Films has unveiled three new feature films for its 2002 slate, following its co-production of the Oliver Stone Cuba documentary Looking For Fidel.Alvaro Fernandez Armero, director of local box office smash The Art Of Dying (El Arte De Morir), has signed on to an ...
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Film division boosts Sogecable's net profit
Spanish media group Sogecable has reported positive year-end financial results for the first time since 1998, citing the success of its film division Sogecine, as a major contributing factor. Sogecable posted Euros 2.8m in net profits for 2001 compared with a loss of Euros 11.4m in 2000. Group revenue rose ...
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Malaga fest honours Cuerda and Marsillach
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga is set to pay tribute to director-producer Jose Luis Cuerda and actor Adolfo Marsillach at its fifth annual edition, to be held a month earlier than usual this year (April 26 to May 4).Acclaimed director of 1999's Butterfly (La Lengua De Las Mariposas) and ...
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Fantasporto unveils new film festival of Gaia
The organisers of Portugal's premiere film festival, Fantasporto, have unveiled plans to launch a new annual event, the International Film Festival of Gaia, with a first edition scheduled for June 14-22, 2002.Set in the neighbouring city of Oporto, the Gaia festival will be non genre-specific, thus setting it apart from ...
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Spain's Quiero appoints Sahun as general manager
Spanish DTT platform Quiero TV has appointed Luis Sahun its new general manager following former GM Ildefonso de Miguel's resignation Friday (Feb 22). Sahun, a former executive at Quiero majority backer Auna (Retevision), moves up from his position as sub-director general at Quiero. Having directed the beleaguered platform since before ...
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Almodovar Talks to Euro theatres for premiere
Pedro Almodovar's eagerly anticipated new film Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) will not receive its world premiere at one of this year's top film festivals as might be expected. Instead promotion will focus initially on just three key European territories so that the director can get back to work ...
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Veteran Colom quits Spain's Via Digital
Spanish industry veteran Ramon Colom has resigned from his position as head of contents and programming at Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital. His resignation, the latest in a series of high-level personnel shuffles at the various holdings of Admira, Telefonica's media subsidiary, is unlikely to come as a surprise. ...
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Cash crunch hits Portugal's producers
The Portuguese film industry is beginning to feel the effects of the growing financial difficulties within the nation's broadcasters. The global slump in advertising has hit this corner of Europe particularly hard, with one Portuguese television executive estimating a 40% drop in the market in recent months.Pedro Berhan da Costa, ...
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Oliver Stone to interview Castro for Cuba project
Spanish producers MediaPro, Morena Films and Argentina's Esperanza Films have joined Madrid-based Pentagrama Films to produce a documentary about Cuba for director Oliver Stone.Provisionally titled Looking For Fidel, the documentary is based on an original idea by Pentagrama producer Jose Ibanez exploring the history and future of the island. Production ...
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Every Stewardess goes to multiple territories
Co-producers Wanda Vision, Patagonik Film Group and BD Cine have closed a string of sales on Berlin Panorama entry Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven (Todas Las Azafatas Van Al Cielo) from director Daniel Burman. The well-received Argentine-Spanish co-production has sold to Austria and Switzerland (Trigon), Italy (Amedeo Pagani) and Asia ...
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Sogepaq takes world rights on City Of No Limits
Spanish sales house Sogepaq has picked up worldwide rights on Berlin Panorama entry In The City Of No Limits (En La Ciudad Sin Limites).Directed by Antonio Hernandez (Lisboa), City is a co-production between Spain's Zebra Producciones and Iconica with Argentina's Patagonik.The film stars Leonardo Sbaraglia (Intact) as a young man ...
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Blasco named president of Spain's Antena 3 TV
Spanish media group Admira Media, filial of telecoms giant Telefonica, has appointed Luis Blasco the new president of holding Antena 3 Television.Blasco, a former CEO of Radio Espana, will also act as vice president of Admira under president Luis Abril, who replaced Juan Jose Nieto in January.Jose Antonio Sanchez, a ...
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Spain's Grupo Planeta launches documentary arm
Spain's Grupo Planeta has launched new documentary production-distribution label "Planeta D" to be overseen in the group's Barcelona headquarters by former Media Park executive Jonathon South.Capitalising on the current popularity of documentaries in Spain, Planeta envisions the new division as "the brand of reference of documentaries of prestige in Spain."Planeta ...
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Euros 300m secures Quiero TV's continuity
Backers of struggling Spanish digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform Quiero TV have approved a capital increase worth Euros 300m. In a statement, Quiero said the increase - which will be carried out before February 15, - "guarantees the continuity" of the platform. Local press suggested the new capital increase was ...
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Spain's top awards dominated by The Others
Alejandro Amenabar scooped eight of Spain's Goya Awards on Saturday (Jan 2) with his international co-production The Others in a brisk ceremony which offered few surprises and no other stand-out winners. Amenabar and team triumphed in more than half of The Others' 15 nominated categories, including best film, director, original ...